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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2022
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Akinobu Kondou, Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
A processor is configured to perform: a spatter candidate region detection step of performing, for each of input images obtained by capturing a workpiece during arc welding, detection of a spatter candidate region based on a pixel value indicating brightness of a pixel included in the input images; a reflected light region identification step of identifying, in the spatter candidate region detected in the spatter candidate region detection step, a reflected light region in which reflected light of arc light is shown, based on color information of a predetermined reference pixel included in the spatter candidate region; and a spatter number identification step of identifying, as a number of spatters, a number of spatter candidate regions obtained by removing the reflected light region identified in the reflected light region identification step in the spatter candidate region detected in the spatter candidate region detection step.
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